My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #97 – The Of Sea & Cake edition is broadcasted Monday 1 and 8 June, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
Tracklist: 01: The Sea and Cake – Four Corners 02: Dhani Harrison (Live at George Fest) – Savoy Truffle 03: Air – La Femme d’Argent 04: Queens Of The Stone Age – Monsters In The Parasol 05: The Beach Boys – Catch A Wave (Stereo/Remastered 2001) 06: Deerhoof – Milk Man 07: Cake – Distance 08: Stereolab – Lo Boob Oscillator 09: Brian Eno – By This River (2004 Digital Remaster) 10: Lupe Fiasco – Cake 11: Can – Vitamin C 12: Everything But The Girl – Temperamental 13: The Sea and Cake – Parasol
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #97 – The Of Sea & Cake edition is broadcasted Monday 1 and 8 June, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
For some reason I had the programme title for a while. Probably, because of Sea and Cake, the band that opens and closes the show. Since I recently went ocean swim again and I like cake, it was a perfect match. Ideas and life catching and matching up.
The songs and instrumentals aren’t necessarily about cake, sweets, or the ocean, although enough are. Like Savoy Truffle written by George Harrison for The Beatles’ White Album is literally about chocolates, and was written for Eric Clapton and his love of said sweets. For The Of Sea & Cake edition I picked the live version Dhani Harrison singings his father’s song.
The Beach Boys’ Catch A Wave is another literal song, this time about the ocean and catching a wave to surf.
Tracklist: 01: The Sea and Cake – Four Corners 02: Dhani Harrison (Live at George Fest) – Savoy Truffle 03: Air – La Femme d’Argent 04: Queens Of The Stone Age – Monsters In The Parasol 05: The Beach Boys – Catch A Wave (Stereo/Remastered 2001) 06: Deerhoof – Milk Man 07: Cake – Distance 08: Stereolab – Lo Boob Oscillator 09: Brian Eno – By This River (2004 Digital Remaster) 10: Lupe Fiasco – Cake 11: Can – Vitamin C 12: Everything But The Girl – Temperamental 13: The Sea and Cake – Parasol
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #95 – edition was broadcasted Monday 20th and 27th April, 2026, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com and is now available on mixcloud.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #95 – The Of Light & Gentleness edition is, as the title says, a programme that mostly revolves around light in different ways, and gentleness. You can read more about the show here.
Tracklist:
01: José Gonzalez – The Light
02: The New Pornographers – Pure Sticker Shock too
03: Francisco Fontes – Copiloto
04: Laurie Shaw – Chimney Breast
05: Kevin Morby – Badlands
06: Stone Dead – Plasticine
07: Bruce Springsteen – Rainy Night In Soho
08: Tinariwen – Imidiwan Takyadam feat. José Gonzalez
09: Butler-Black-Grant – Not Alone
10: The Lemon Twigs – I Just Can’t Get Over Losing You
11: Michael Weston King – Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore
12: Red Sun Atacama – Sundown
13: Hanemoon – We Didn’t Know
14: Baby Suicida – Se Me Deixares, Eu Digo
15: The Dharma Chain – Clockwork
16: Special Friend – Isolation
All previous shows on mixcloud:
Tracklist: 01: José Gonzalez – The Light 02: The New Pornographers – Pure Sticker Shock too 03: Francisco Fontes – Copiloto 04: Laurie Shaw – Chimney Breast 05: Kevin Morby – Badlands 06: Stone Dead – Plasticine 07: Bruce Springsteen – Rainy Night In Soho 08: Tinariwen – Imidiwan Takyadam feat. José Gonzalez 09: Butler-Black-Grant – Not Alone 10: The Lemon Twigs – I Just Can’t Get Over Losing You 11: Michael Weston King – Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore 12: Red Sun Atacama – Sundown 13: Hanemoon – We Didn’t Know 14: Baby Suicida – Se Me Deixares, Eu Digo 15: The Dharma Chain – Clockwork 16: Special Friend – Isolation
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #96 – The We’re Still In Spring edition is broadcasted Monday 18th and 25th May, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
There’s seventeen songs of different genres and time periods. By new bands and longs established ones. Some of the songs aren’t an obvious Spring choice, but they make sense to me in springtime.
The programme goes from a Spring song for children, The Kiboomers – Ladybugs Fly, to fado with Rita Braga’s tropical interpretation of Amália Rodrigues and Don Byas’ Rua do Capelão.
There’s space for indie songs, Again and Again and Again by Silly Boy Blue, Sun It Rises by Fleet Floxes, Stranger Baby by Gifthorse or Whole Again by Saint Sappho. Along Schubert’s Frühlingsglaube sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and Test Department with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir singing Take Me Home.
The heavy weights contingent includes Taylor Swift, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers, and The Kinks.
And that’s not all.
Tracklist: 01: The Kiboomers – Ladybugs Fly 02: Taylor Swift – invisible string 03: The Kind Hills – Dance, Dance, Dance 04: Silly Boy Blue – Again and Again and Again 05: Saint Etienne – Who Do You Think You Are 06: Belle & Sebastian – Seeing Other People 07: The Beach Boys – Spring Vacation 08: Fleet Floxes – Sun It Rises 09: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings Schubert’s Frühlingsglaube, D. 686 10: Gifthorse – Stranger Baby 11: The Beatles – Octopus Garden (Remastered 2009) 12: Dean & Britta – Eyes In My Smoke 13: The Avett Brothers – A Fathers First Spring 14: Saint Sappho – Whole Again 15: Test Department with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir – Take Me Home 16: The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon 17: Rita Braga – Rua do Capelão
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #95 – edition is broadcasted Monday 20th and 27th 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #95 – The Of Light & Gentleness edition is, as the title says, a programme that mostly revolves around light in different ways, and gentleness.
There’s grief, there’s groove, there’s dust, but the tone is mostly gentle and luminous. Even when the lyrics subject is heavier.
Tracklist: 01: José Gonzalez – The Light 02: The New Pornographers – Pure Sticker Shock 03: Francisco Fontes – Copiloto 04: Laurie Shaw – Chimney Breast 05: Kevin Morby – Badlands 06: Stone Dead – Plasticine 07: Bruce Springsteen – Rainy Night In Soho 08: Tinariwen – Imidiwan Takyadam feat. José Gonzalez 09: Butler-Black-Grant – Not Alone 10: The Lemon Twigs – I Just Can’t Get Over Losing You 11: Michael Weston King – Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore 12: Red Sun Atacama – Sundown 13: Hanemoon – We Didn’t Know 14: Baby Suicida – Se Me Deixares, Eu Digo 15: The Dharma Chain – Clockwork 16: Special Friend – Isolation
My radio programme Amazing Songs & Other Delights #70 – The True Love Edition has a repeat Monday 6 & 13, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).You can read about the programme here.
Tracklist: 01: Jane’s Addiction – True Love 02: A 90s new man called Stan – Sushi feat. Adamski 03: Anthony Moore – Earthbound Misfit 04: Black Toska – Three Silver Nails 05: Cosmic Room 99 – E Corp 06: Fernando Triste – Escuro 07: Franz Ferdinand – Audacious 08: Good Sad Happy – Shaded Tree 09: Jonas – Bato À Porta 10: Kingbird – There Were Things That Needed Forgiven 11: Laurie Anderson – Road to Mandalay 12: Primal Scream – Love Insurrection 13: Terry Gross – Sales Pitch 14: The Heavy Heavy – Feel 15: Tindersticks – Always a Stranger 16: Virgem Suta – Amor Ao Avesso 17: Daniel Johnston – True Love Will Find You In The End
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #94 – Of Art & Image edition is now available on mixcloud.
Of Art & Image edition has 15 songs that refer to art, artists, mostly painters, and image, both still and motion. You can read more about the programme here.
Tracklist 01: Don McLean – Vincent 02: Manic Street Preachers – Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning) 03: Death Cab for Cutie – Photobooth 04: The Passions – I’m in Love With a German Film Star 05: John Cale – Magritte 06: Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso 07: David Bowie – Andy Warhol 08: Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead 09: Duran Duran – Girls On Film 10: The Kinks – Picture Book 11: Spoon – I Turn My Camera On 12: Paul Simon – Kodachrome 13: Dire Straits – In the Gallery 14: John Mayer – 3×5 15: Manic Street Preachers – Kevin Carter
The repeat of my radio show My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #63 – The Say Hello, Wave Goodbye edition is broadcasted Monday 16 & 23, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
The title comes from the Soft Cell song of the same name, here on a cover by David Gray. There’s some of my music, along, among others, Franz Schubert, Old Jerusalem, The Clash, Kings of Leon, Bernard Butler. You can read the programme original text here.
Tracklist: 01 – Raquel Pinheiro – Big Bang (radio edit) 02 – Old Jerusalem – Red sun over the interstate 03 – Franz Schubert – Erlkönig, (Op. 1, D. 328 – Wer reitet so spät sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) 04 – The Modern Lovers – Dodge Veg o-matic 05 – Bernard Butler – Camber Sands 06 – The Fugs – Bartleby The Scrivener 07 – Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 08 – David Gray – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Soft Cell cover) 09 – The Beatles – Drive My Car 10 – The Clash – Lost In The Supermarket 11 – Kings of Leon – Going Nowhere (live in Nashville) 12 – Siouxsie & The Banshees – The Passenger (Iggy Pop cover) 13 – The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) (2011 remaster) 14 – Aaron Copland – Going to Heaven! (Emily Dickinson poem, sung by Sanford Sylvan) 15 – Little Eve – The Loco-Motion (remaster) 16 – The June Carriers – Pastoral Epigraph
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #94 – Of Art & Image edition is broadcasted Monday, 2nd and 9th, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Of Art & Image edition has 15 songs that refer to art, artists, mostly painters, and image, both still and motion. You read more about the programme here.
Tracklist 01: Don McLean – Vincent 02: Manic Street Preachers – Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning) 03: Death Cab for Cutie – Photobooth 04: The Passions – I’m in Love With a German Film Star 05: John Cale – Magritte 06: Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso 07: David Bowie – Andy Warhol 08: Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead 09: Duran Duran – Girls On Film 10: The Kinks – Picture Book 11: Spoon – I Turn My Camera On 12: Paul Simon – Kodachrome 13: Dire Straits – In the Gallery 14: John Mayer – 3×5 15: Manic Street Preachers – Kevin Carter
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #94 – Of Art & Image edition is broadcasted Monday, 2nd and 9th, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Of Art & Image edition has 15 songs that refer to art, artists, mostly painters, and image, both still and motion. The Manic Street Preachers have two songs, from Everything Must Go, their fourth album. One for painting, Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning), and one for photography, Kevin Carter.
Don McLean’s Vincent is based on Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, while Dire Straits’ In the Gallery is a tribute to sculptor Harry Braun.
Bauhaus and their Bela Lugosi’s Dead are a double reference. The band’s name to the German arts, design, architecture, crafts school, and to Hungarian-American actor Bela Lugosi.
Tracklist 01: Don McLean – Vincent 02: Manic Street Preachers – Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning) 03: Death Cab for Cutie – Photobooth 04: The Passions – I’m in Love With a German Film Star 05: John Cale – Magritte 06: Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso 07: David Bowie – Andy Warhol 08: Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead 09: Duran Duran – Girls On Film 10: The Kinks – Picture Book 11: Spoon – I Turn My Camera On 12: Paul Simon – Kodachrome 13: Dire Straits – In the Gallery 14: John Mayer – 3×5 15: Manic Street Preachers – Kevin Carter
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